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r any already in camp change their location, without orders from these headquarters. Although the order restricted recruiting for new regiments except those designated, it allowed and encouraged recruiting for regiments already in the field. It also gave notice that two new regiments, to be composed of men of Irish birth, were soon to be placed in camp, one of which, the Twenty-eighth, to form a part of the command of Major-General Butler, whose headquarters is at Lowell. On the 23d of September, Mr. Cameron telegraphed to the Governor, Will the three regiments for General Sherman be ready this week? He must be supplied in advance of all other applications for same service. Please reply immediately. To which the Governor answered the same day, and requested the Secretary not to issue an order detailing particular regiments to General Butler, but to leave all such details to him: he could provide for him otherwise and sufficiently. To which Mr. Cameron answered, Select the r